Run the Number on What Non-Filing Cases Actually Cost Your Practice

Last year you spent money on a case that did not file.

You know the number.

It is sitting somewhere in your overhead that you do not look at directly, because it is easier to think of it as the cost of doing business than to confront what it would look like if you ran it as an annual line item.

Run It

Take every case from the last 24 months that did not file or resolve after expert retention began. Add up the expert fees, the record retrieval costs, the deposition transcripts if any, and a conservative estimate of attorney and staff time. Do not skip the staff time.

For most plaintiff med mal practices handling a moderate volume of intakes, that number is somewhere between $30,000 and $80,000 over two years. In some practices it is significantly higher.

What the Number Tells You

That number is not the cost of doing business. It is the cost of evaluating case merit after commitment rather than before it. Those are different things and treating them the same is how the number stays invisible.

A pre-litigation screen at $1,250 per case, applied to the cases where clinical viability was uncertain at intake, costs a fraction of what the current process costs. The math is not complicated. It just requires looking at the number directly.

Then go to caseveritas.com.